ORDINARY MEETING.* 



The Ven. Archdeacon Robinson Thornton, D.D., V.P.. 

 IN THE Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 

 following Elections were announced : — 



Member : — Rev. E. Pitcairn Wright, London. 



Associate : — Rev. I. K. Hill, China. 



CoRKESPONDiNG Member : — Pastor Georg Stosch, D.D., Berlin. 



The following paper was read by the Author : — 



ANOTHER POSSIBLE CAUSE OF THE GLACIAL 

 EPOCH. By Professor Edward Hull, LL.D., F.R.S., 

 F.G.S. (Plate.) 



Part I. — Introductory. 



IT is knowu from soandings, carried out by the United 

 States Navy, the British Admiralty and by private 

 enterprise, that the eastern coast of America has for its 

 margin a submerged terrace — known as "the Continental 

 Shelf" — which stretches from the coast outwards to the 

 hundred-fathom line, and terminates along an escarpment 

 going down to about 450 to 500 fathoms, when another 

 terrace is met with stretching for a greater or less distance 

 under the Atlantic with an average depth of 2,700 to 

 3,000 feet, and in its turn bounded by a steep descent 

 leading down into the abysmal depths of the ocean, which 

 vary from 12,000 to 13,000 feet or more below the present 

 surface. This second and deeper terrace, determined by 

 Professor A. Agassiz, has been named by him " The Blake 



* January 17th, 1898. 



